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Reasons for admission :
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Experiences in intensive care :
Coming round and regaining consciousness
Sleep, dreams and hallucinations
Intensive care treatments
Physiotherapy
Emotional experiences in ICU
Nursing care in ICU
Death and bereavement
High Dependency Unit (HDUs)

Experiences in the general ward :
The general ward: care and environment
Physical and emotional experiences
Physiotherapy on the ward
Discharge and moving on

Recovering at home :
Physical recovery
Emotional aspects of recovery
Making sense of what happened
ICU follow-up care
Attitudes to life during and after recovery
Impact on family
Impact on work
Sources of support
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Intensive care: Patients' experiences

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Was admitted to ICU in 2004 because of a rare infection caused by slight dog bite. Had finger and toes amputated. Was in intensive care for 17 days and was discharged after a short stay in a general ward. Later attended another hospital for skin grafts.

Intensive care >> Intensive care: Patients' experiences >> Aged 31-40 >> Interview 05 >> Her husband made the difficult decision of consenting to her having a new drug.

Had pneumonia and severe sepsis. Was in intensive care for 22 days, the High Dependency Unit for 10 days and just over a week on a general ward.

Intensive care >> Intensive care: Patients' experiences >> Aged 51-60 >> Interview 32 >> She would rather have a bit of pain than hallucinations caused by morphine.

Was admitted to intensive care in 2004 because of a perforated duodenal ulcer and septicaemia. Spent 29 days in intensive care, about 6 weeks in a general ward, and 6 weeks in a rehabilitation hospital.

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